Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the United States civil aviation authority, an operating administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. It regulates and certificates aircraft, airmen, airports and air carriers, operates the National Airspace System and its air traffic control, and issues the aeronautical information the entire U.S. travel and aviation chain runs on — NOTAMs, TFRs, charts, the 28-day NASR subscription, aircraft registration and airport data. It sits upstream of commercial travel distribution rather than inside it — the FAA sells no inventory and is not a GDS, NDC or channel participant, but every airline, GDS, OTA, flight-planning app and drone service supplier in the United States consumes FAA data as a source of truth. Its API posture is genuinely mixed and honest reporting requires saying so. The Airport Status Web Service and the Aeronautic Product Release API are published under a Creative Commons Zero licence, answer unauthenticated over HTTPS, and ship real OpenAPI 3.0.1 documents through a public Gravitee developer portal at api.faa.gov. Alongside them the FAA runs a CKAN 2.11.4 catalog and two ArcGIS Open Data hubs with DCAT-US 1.1 feeds and bulk CSV/GeoJSON/KML export. But the NOTAM API, the Air Carrier Pilot Records Database API and SWIM are gated — client_id/client_secret headers, operator eligibility restricted by regulation, or an executed SWIM agreement — and LAANC drone authorization is reachable only through FAA-approved UAS Service Suppliers, never directly.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Federal Aviation Administration the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Federal Aviation Administration scores 54.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 30/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
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How we profile Federal Aviation Administration
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Federal Aviation Administration. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 35
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
FAA NOTAM API
Notices to Air Missions retrieval API. Probe-confirmed live but gated — an unauthenticated GET returned HTTP 401 with the body {"message":"Unauthorized", "http_status_code":401}...
FAA NOTAM Management Service (NMS) API
The distribution interface of the FAA's new NOTAM Management Service, the vendor-provided replacement for the legacy United States NOTAM System (USNS) and Federal NOTAM System (...
FAA NMS North Atlantic Track NOTAM Feed
Unauthenticated JSON feed of North Atlantic Track NOTAMs published by the FAA NOTAM Management Service. Each record carries accountability and origin ids, the formatted NOTAM nu...
FAA NMS System Metrics Feed
Unauthenticated JSON feed backing the NOTAM Management Service system metrics dashboard — cumulative NOTAMs processed, NMS API onboarded users, NMS API volume of data pulled per...
FAA DMS Lookup API
Retrieves designee information from the FAA Data Management System using either a Designee Number or an ODA Key ID. Listed in the api.faa.gov portal under the "Public" category,...
FAA Data Catalog API (CKAN)
The FAA's public data clearinghouse at catalog.data.faa.gov runs CKAN 2.11.4 and exposes the standard CKAN Action API. Verified 2026-07-28 — status_show returned site_title "Fed...
FAA Aeronautical Information Services Open Data
ArcGIS Open Data hub published by "Federal Aviation Administration - AIS" carrying 73 datasets — class airspace, frequencies, runways, navaids, obstacles, VFR and IFR chart tile...
FAA UAS Data Delivery System Open Data
ArcGIS Open Data hub for unmanned aircraft data — UAS Facility Maps (the LAANC altitude grid), national security UAS flight restrictions, part-time restrictions, FAA-Recognized ...
FAA NAS Status Airport Status Information Feed
Unauthenticated XML feed of national airspace system status — ground stop programs, ground delay programs, airport closures and arrival/departure delays — as consumed by nasstat...
FAA Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) List API
Unauthenticated JSON list of active Temporary Flight Restrictions, each carrying a NOTAM id, TFR type, ARTCC facility identifier, state and effective description. Verified live ...
Federal Aviation Administration Air Carrier API
The AirCarrierApi API from Federal Aviation Administration — 4 operation(s) for aircarrierapi.
Federal Aviation Administration Axhsubmitdiscrepancies API
The Axhsubmitdiscrepancies API from Federal Aviation Administration — 1 operation(s) for axhsubmitdiscrepancies.
Federal Aviation Administration Coded Instrument Flight Procedures (CIFP) API
The Coded Instrument Flight Procedures (CIFP) API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for coded instrument flight procedures (cifp).
Federal Aviation Administration Daily Digital Obstacle File (DDOF) API
The Daily Digital Obstacle File (DDOF) API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for daily digital obstacle file (ddof).
Federal Aviation Administration Digital Enroute Charts US (DDECUS) API
The Digital Enroute Charts US (DDECUS) API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for digital enroute charts us (ddecus).
Federal Aviation Administration Digital Enroute Supplement (DERS) API
The Digital Enroute Supplement (DERS) API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for digital enroute supplement (ders).
Federal Aviation Administration FAA Airport Status Service API
The FAA Airport Status Service API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for faa airport status service.
Federal Aviation Administration Grand Canyon VFR Chart API
The Grand Canyon VFR Chart API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for grand canyon vfr chart.
Federal Aviation Administration Gulf of Mexico IFR Enroute Chart API
The Gulf of Mexico IFR Enroute Chart API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for gulf of mexico ifr enroute chart.
Federal Aviation Administration IFR Enroute Charts API
The IFR Enroute Charts API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for ifr enroute charts.
Federal Aviation Administration IFR Planning Charts API
The IFR Planning Charts API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for ifr planning charts.
Federal Aviation Administration NASR 28 Day Subscription API
The NASR 28 Day Subscription API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for nasr 28 day subscription.
Federal Aviation Administration Oceanic Route Charts API
The Oceanic Route Charts API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for oceanic route charts.
Federal Aviation Administration Sectional Charts API
The Sectional Charts API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for sectional charts.
Federal Aviation Administration Supplement Chart API
The Supplement Chart API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for supplement chart .
Federal Aviation Administration Terminal Area Charts API
The Terminal Area Charts API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for terminal area charts.
Federal Aviation Administration US Terminal Procedures Publication (TPP) API
The US Terminal Procedures Publication (TPP) API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for us terminal procedures publication (tpp).
Federal Aviation Administration US VFR Wall Planning Chart API
The US VFR Wall Planning Chart API from Federal Aviation Administration — 2 operation(s) for us vfr wall planning chart.
Federal Aviation Administration VFR Helicopter Route Chart API
The VFR Helicopter Route Chart API from Federal Aviation Administration — 4 operation(s) for vfr helicopter route chart.
FAA NOTAM
The FAA NOTAM API provides access to Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMs), which are time-critical aeronautical information that could affect a pilot's decision to make a flight. Th...
FAA Airport Status
The FAA Airport Status Web Service (ASWS) provides current airport conditions, including delays and ground stops, for major United States airports. Developers can use the servic...
FAA NASR Subscription
The FAA National Airspace System Resources (NASR) Subscription provides authoritative aeronautical data covering airports, navigation aids, airways, fixes, and special-use airsp...
FAA Airmen Registry
The FAA Airmen Registry provides downloadable data on certificated pilots and other airmen in the United States, including pilot certificates, ratings, and medical certificates....
FAA Aircraft Registry
The FAA Aircraft Registry provides downloadable data on civil aircraft registered in the United States, including registration, ownership, and airworthiness information. The dat...
FAA System Wide Information Management
The FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program is a service-oriented information sharing platform that delivers real-time National Airspace System data to authorized ...
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Open Collections 4
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Aeronautic Product Release API
OPEN COLLECTIONPRD Air Carrier API
OPEN COLLECTIONAirport Status Web Service
OPEN COLLECTIONsas-api
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Faa Plans
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Faa Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Faa Swim Event Surface
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Federal Aviation Administration — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 7
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 9
The organization behind the API
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Other 10
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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